On April 22, 2020, while America was in lockdown, two frontline physicians Doctors Daniel (Dan) Erickson and Artin Massihi, owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, USA, held a local press conference to share their pandemic data and experience. News station 23ABC uploaded the videos to YouTube, but on April 27, 2020 they received an email from YouTube notifying them the video had been removed, citing “violation” of YouTube’s “community guidelines.” By that stage the videos had received over 5 million views (5.46M), and had caught the attention of even Elon Musk.
Following are a collection of interviews and articles to capture the story of Dr Erickson’s frontline pandemic experience and that of censorship following informing the public of their real world data and experience! I’ll include links to Dr Massihi if I find them.
Links in reverse chronological order
2020
May 12, 2020 – Mother Jones:Anti-Vaxxers Have a Dangerous Theory Called “Natural Immunity.” Now It’s Going Mainstream – “Your body is an amazing being—it knows how to take care of itself.” – this article references the Bakerfield doctors – READ [Unbelievable!]
July 31, 2020 – KGET News: Controversial Bakersfield doctor back in national spotlight after aligning with group downplaying COVID-19 threat – WATCH
May 4, 2020 – Journeyman Pictures | Perspectives on the Pandemic Episode 6 – The Bakersfield Doctors – WATCH
April 30, 2020 – The Highwire Ep 161 – CORONAVIRUS: A NATION DIVIDED – WATCH, @13min FULL, BACKUP
April 28, 2020 – The Blaze: YouTube removed the viral video of frontline doctors calling for an end to quarantine and comparing COVID-19 to the flu – ‘Violating YouTube’s Terms of Service’ – READ
April 28, 2022 – KUSI News | Good Morning San Diago: Dr. Daniel Erickson says the lockdowns have a minimal impact on containing Coronavirus – WATCH, BACKUP
April 28, 2020 – 23 ABC Backersfield: Emergency physicians weigh in on Bakersfield doctors who’ve gone viral for shelter-in-place comments – READ, New York doctor doen’t agree
“Quarantine by definition is to sequester people who are sick. You don’t quarantine well people. You let them be exposed in the general public so they can acquire immunity.”
Dr Erickson
April 27, 2020 – ABC 7 News: Coronavirus pandemic: Bakersfield doctors push to lift shelter-in-place order, Bay Area health experts disagree – WATCH
April 27, 2020 – Fox News | Laura Ingraham on ‘The Ingraham Angle: California urgent care doctors make case for reopening America – Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, join Laura Ingraham on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ – WATCH, BACKUP
- Dr Erickson notes per the CDC’s own website, the flu vaccine often doesn’t match the circulating virus very well, thus the vaccine has little or no effect on getting a population to herd immunity. “You can get to herd immunity without a vaccine”. [Was this comment the trigger for censorship?? as the press conference videos were pulled shortly after this Ingraham Angle airing]
April 27, 2020 – 23 ABC Backersfield: Joint statement issued by national physicians’ groups calls local doctors’ statement “reckless and untested musings” – READ
April 27, 2020 – 23 ABC Backersfield: YouTube issues statement on removal of controversial video interview with Bakersfield doctors – READ, ARCHIVE
April 26, 2020 – American Institute of Economic Research: Open Up Society Now, Say Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi – READ
April 22, 2020 – 23 ABC Backersfield/Kero: Accelerated Urgent Care doctors recommend lifting shelter-in-place order – READ
- They “have tested over 5,200 patients for the coronavirus throughout the county, making up for over half of all testing in Kern. According to their data, the death rate of the coronavirus is similar in prevalence to the flu.”
April 22, 2020 – 23 ABC News | KERO: Dr. Erickson COVID-19 Briefing – YouTube DELETED, Part 1 – ARCHIVE, Part 2 – ARCHIVE, Full video – WATCH, QUOTES
April 22, 2020 – LifeSite News: YouTube CEO: We’ll delete anything that contradicts World Health Organization on COVID-19 -‘Anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations would be a violation of our policy,’ Susan Wojcicki insisted – READ, WATCH, Senators comment – TWEET, Armstrong Economics comment – READ
